Recap of 2011

Selected work in 2011. Hope I can get much much better in the new year!

Color Paintings

Faces are hard as usual...

Value Studies 45min

45min studies with different brush, might go for 30min ones next time

Value Study: Horse & Jockey

Movie Screenshots: 星を追う子ども

(Huge file size, takes a while to load...)
Very nice colors

Movie Screenshots: Assassin's Creed: Lineage

Movie Screenshots: Apocalypto

Animal Value Studies

Low contrast ones are hard to paint...
Included a WIP video for the frog/ toad study:

Question: Smart Learning...How?

I do not know why I drew all these as well...
My first post not to post some work and actually ask a question: How to learn things the smart way? This is not a post to list the different ways of learning things, but to ask you what & how do you define learning things smartly. I have been told learning smartly is to learn with the objectives in mind... but how? Any examples? Or that the smartest way to learn is to practice more? 

I would hope to get some input thru the post comments (If you have read up to this sentence, please make a point to leave a comment on this topic, thanks), be it personal opinion or that you feel this post is ridiculously retarded...

 I guess that you might see this post first on the posts listings, take up to a minute to think first, then leave your comments.

Value Studies

Probably looks better when it's smaller scale... tortoise's shell leveled too bright...